Rodrigo of Aragon

Rodrigo of Aragon (1 November 1499-August 1512) was Duke of Bisceglie and Sermoneta of the House of Trastamara. He was the only child of Prince Alfonso of Aragon and Lucrezia Borgia.

Biography
Rodrigo of Aragon was born in Rome, Papal States on 1 November 1499, the son of Prince Alfonso of Aragon and Lucrezia Borgia. He was the grandson of King Alfonso II of Naples on his father's side and Pope Alexander VI on his mother's side, and he belonged to the House of Trastamara. Archbishop Francisco de Borja of Cosenza was his godfather, while Cardinal Oliviero Carafa performed the rite in the Sistine Chapel. After his father's murder in 1500, Rodrigo was entrused to Francisco, as Lucrezia had to abandon her child to remarry to Alfonso d'Este. He inherited the Dukedom of Bisceglie and all of his father's other properties, and the Pope made him Duke of Sermoneta. After the Pope's death in 1503, Rodrigo and the rest of the Borgias were locked in the Castel Sant'Angelo. He was later allowed to stay with Alfonso's family, and he was raised by Sancia of Naples. In 1512, he died in Bari of illness.